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Distributed TDMA MAC Protocol with Source-Driven Combined Resource Allocation in Ad Hoc Networks

Authors:
Myunghwan Seo
Hyungweon Cho
Jongho Park
Jihyoung Ahn
Bumkwi Choi
Tae-Jin Lee

Keywords: ad hoc networks, MAC protocol, TDMA, QoS

Abstract:
MAC protocols for multimedia traffic transmission in mobile ad hoc networks have been studied steadily. It is still challenging to design an efficient protocol due to limited resource and multi-hop transmission property. CSMA-based MAC protocol is not suitable for multimedia traffic transmission due to hop-by-hop contention and collision. TDMA-based MAC protocol is appropriate to transmit time-sensitive traffic but slot allocation and sharing of slot information mechanism is essential. In this paper we propose a novel TDMA MAC protocol for mobile ad hoc networks, which includes distributed resource reservation and resource state sharing mechanism. In addition, we present an efficient collision resolution method. We show that our proposed TDMA MAC is suitable for delay-sensitive data transmission via simulations.

Pages: 279 to 284

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: January 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-113-7

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011